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Originally Posted by Professor S
And right there is what I believe is the dishonesty. As long as both shows adamantly brand themselves as "entertainment", they can make whatever statements they like with whatever bias they like without ever having to be responsible for their content. Yet, Stewart and his ilk want to be taken seriously when they see fit. If your looking for specifics as to why I feel so strongly about this, listen to the jokes on the next Daily Show. Each joke uses "real news" as the set-up, followed by the punchline. Often times, the writers misstate, omit info or openly lie in the "real news" set-up. Also, their interviews with political figures are hilariously bad. Democrat or left leaning guests are essentially fawned over, while Stewart almost verbally attacks those on the right with disingenuous questions, and then to top it off his interviews with right wing guests are almost ALWAYS heavily edited, especially the one with Jonah Goldberg just recently.
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You can believe whatever you want to believe and I doubt anyone would change your mind.
But if I'm not mistaken the Jonah Goldberg interview was about 20 mins when they taped. For a show that is at best 22 minutes long what the hell did you expect him to do?
He even made a note of it before they aired the segment that it was heavily editted for time.
But you will just say it was editted in their favor anyhow.